Hannah organized a game called The Chocolate Game and the girls LOVED it! You can tell in this video:
Basically it's a dice game and when you roll doubles you have to put on all this clothing and then try and unwrap a chocolate bar (which is extra wrapped in newspaper!) and eat it with a fork and knife. Not so easy with garden gloves on! BUT after you roll, then next person rolls and so on. If someone else rolls a double, then you have to take off that clothing and give it to that other person. So, really, it took a while for the girls to unwrap the chocolate bar and take a bite. :) Like I said, they loved it!
Then, as we ate ice cream, the girls went outside and found some flowers that could only "bloom" in a special way. I had gotten this idea from our Hungarian teacher Zsuzsa and the girls LOVED it too! Basically, you cut out a flower from construction paper and fold over the petals to cover up the middle. On the inside I put a Bible verse from our Bible studies this year. But in order for the flower to "bloom" you had to place it in water. As the water gets absorbed into the paper, the petals unfold and you can read the verse. Here is a pic of mine, before and after:
We had also bought some glass frames from IKEA for each of the girls to place a group photo of us in. Hannah created a border around the photos so that the girls could write a little note and once all had signed each one, they put them in the frames. We also gave them small journals to keep a record of things that happened during their summer. So in the fall, they can share with each other what happened.
I enjoyed the time with the girls. They are so sweet and fun to be around! (I will miss teaching them too.)
